KISS in Paradise
Part 22-B
By Kori/Jessi



"There's Paul."  Stephanie motioned to the KISS 
member as he walked across the nearly deserted 
beach.

"Stephanie, what are you doing here.... and with a 
Leopard?"  

Stephanie sighed  "The boy awoke.  He is a changer, 
it seems, with an added twist that he can at least 
talk to us in both his forms.  He says his name is 
Jeren Criss.  I thought that perhaps you would like 
to talk to him and that Shandi could help him learn 
to change and change back.  He was too frightened to 
remember how he changed."  

Paul nodded and turned to the young teen were-
leopard. "Hello Jeren."

"Hi."  The boy said, obviously still scared. 
Stephanie had given him no reason to be scared; yet 
he was anyway.  He mentally chastised himself for 
that, as he thought a nineteen-year-old boy should 
not be scared. 

Paul figured anyone would be scared if suddenly you 
became an animal and could not remember how to 
change. "Can I ask you some questions?"

"Sure, but isn't that one?"  

Paul smiled and nodded.  "How did you end up on this 
Island chain?"

"My mother brought my sister and I, as well as two 
others to the Islands to meet our fathers."  
Apparently Jeren was not too pleased with having to 
talk about that.

"Who is your sister?"

"Katie Criss."

"She's on the Island right now, as is her two 
companions, which I guess were the two friends you 
were talking about.  Unfortunately Simone Leone, 
which I guess would be your mother, died in the lab 
of Moreau."  

Jeren made a feline sound that sounded a little bit 
like shock, and laid his head down on the sand, and 
Paul could see that tears were forming, proving that 
the leopard was definitely once human.

~*~

Krista walked up to Ace as he was repairing his 
guitar, which he had brought with him.  She was a 
little nervous, which was odd for her, but she knew 
that she wanted to talk to the man who was her 
father.  She wouldn't tell him, Gene should do that, 
but she would at least talk to him.

"Hello."  She said timidly, which again was strange 
for her.  

Ace looked up with surprise and then smiled. "Hi 
Krista."  Paul had introduced the girls to everyone 
so he knew her name.  For some odd reason he also 
felt a connection to her, although why was not 
known.

"I like the guitar."

"Thanks.  Do you play?"

"Yes, actually.  I learned to play about three years 
ago. I'm not that good yet, but I can play alright."

"Really, let me see."

~*~

Gene watched from a place where he could see all the 
members of KISS waiting for his announcement.  He 
watched as Paul talked with a women on the beach, 
who had a feline creature with her, Vinnie as he 
tried to flirt with one of the women fans on Eric's 
Island and getting little successes, Ace as he was 
helping Krista learn how to play the guitar better.  
He saw Peter and Scarlett dancing with Samantha to 
some strange Dance that Katie and Liz were teaching 
them.

Gene sighed, how was he going to tell the guys he 
had known for the past twenty years they had 
children and never told them?  Paul would probably 
stay mad at him for a while and then become friends 
again, since the two of them were the closest, but 
Peter and Ace were not going to be so easy.  Ace 
would doubt it and Peter would start yelling at Gene 
for not telling them sooner.  Both Eric Singer and 
Eric Carr would give him looks that said 'how could 
you?" and Bruce would just have a shocked 
expression.  Vinnie would try to blackmail him, he 
was sure.  Mark St. John would just stare at him.

He stood up and walked down to the center of the 
opening and motioned all the members to him.  He 
looked down at the ground as they walked up to him, 
collecting his thoughts as he prepared to tell them 
the truth, finally. 

~*~

She walked along the edge of the Island, making sure 
she was not seen.  She made sure the others were 
left in the boat.  She didn't trust them...they were 
mutants.  She could only trust full-blooded humans 
and then not many.

She was not tolerant of them.  They had no place on 
the planet.  Moreau did not do this planet a favor 
by creating them.  She was going to destroy them 
all.  It has started with her sister, and then the 
one fan.  That would show them she meant business.  
Those were not mutants but they did not believe in 
the pureblood she did.  Therefore they had to die.  

Then she laughed to herself.  So they thought the 
Beast had killed the fan.  She had killed her, 
although for some reason she could not remember much 
past grabbing her and the look on Eric Singer's 
face.  She did remember everything being tinged with 
a hot red rage, and eventually that was all she 
remembered.  The bitch must have got a few last 
licks in before she killed her, but she was sure she 
had killed her.  The Beast was just fiction, she was 
sure of it, a mere myth of the local people.  But it 
was useful.  They believed in it and she used that 
to her greatest ability. Even that pathetic piece of 
work guitarist believed in it.  But then he had 
believed she actually returned his feelings.  Like 
she would ever love a pathetic life form like him.  
He had been only something she could use to gain 
power.  He as well as those four brats and their 
mother.  Well at least the bitch was dead.  The next 
on her list was the loudmouth mutant that was Krista 
Frehley.  She would die and her killer would watch 
with delight. 

So he thought he could betray her?  Well, he was 
wrong.  No one betrayed her and lived.  Her sister 
was proof of that.  Only for him it would be a more 
painful death.  She smiled.  Maybe she would use 
some of the ideas she got from those fan fictions 
her sister used to read. 

Revenge would be sweet.  She would control 
everything!  Even the Doctor did not expect her, but 
he was week minded and would die as well.  All of 
them would die.  But Peter Criss would die last, and 
it would be the most painful death.  He had no right 
to refuse her and then take her sister.  No one 
refused Her!  He would see her face as he died and 
know that making love to her sister was a fatal 
mistake.